INDEX 



Agricultural colleges, forestry in, 251 



lands, forest and, 190 

 American Forestry Association, 243 



Backwoods transportation in, 48 

 Backwoodsman, and plainsman, 43 



type of the, 41 

 Backwoodsmen, attitude of, towards 



forest, 56 



influence of, on American history, 



43 



last traces of, 53 

 Barren Grounds, 15 

 Biltmore, 64, 129, 240 

 Booms, 78 



Burnt areas, restocking of, 117 



Cattle, injury by, 119 



Climate, forests and, 166 



College of Forestry, New York 



State, 238, 249 

 Compartments, 151 

 Coppice, 138 



Cornell University, forestry in, 238 

 Cruisers, 81 



Denuded areas, 30, 96 

 Duty on lumber, 160, 224 



Education in forestry, 248 

 Erosion, forests and, 169 

 Estimates of timber, 215 

 Excelsior, 62 

 Exhaustion of timber supply, 66, 



74, 153 



Expectation value, 214 

 Experiment stations, 238 



Fencing material, 60 

 Fernow, Dr. B. E., 238 

 Fire and education, 202 



and lumbering, 204 



and morals, 201 



Fire and settlers, IOO 



and the press, 201 



burning litter, 200 



causes of, 98, 183 



destructive, 104 



Hinckley, in 



injury done by, 105, 113, 116 



legitimate use of, 99 



Peshtigo, no 



police, 187, 197 



police in Canada, 199 



progress of a, 102 



protection in Europe, 187 



protective measures against, 186 



Saginaw, in 



set to improve pasture, 99 



wardens, 198 



warning signs, 203 

 Fires, classes of forest, 115 



laws regulating, 197 



penal statutes against, 195 

 Fireweeds, 117 

 Firewood, 63 



Forest, an organism, 6 



Atlantic, 8 



disappearance of, and lumbermen, 



96 



eastern, 8 



industries, 60 



Pacific coast, 10 



policy a cause of the Revolution, 



31 



policy in colonial times, 34 



Puget Sound, 12 



regions, 5 



reserves, 232 



Rocky Mountain, 10 



warfare of the, 7, 16 

 Foresters, opportunities for, 252 

 Forestry and landscape gardening, 



128 



and lumber trade journals, 244 



and tree planting, 133 



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